January 2008 Grocery Challenge

High_Peak_Lass

rosieben wrote: »

If you deducted the tupperware from your total, is your real gc spend within budget?

Hee Hee!! yes, as it was £12!
Cheers Rosieben:beer:
Right, time to update sig and it's game on for the rest of the month!!

waddy80

dlb wrote: »

I just shop around, see you are from good old chesterfield too, the butchers at Netto do 5lb of mince for £3.99 which i thick it good value. THE butchers in market hall good value too.

Netto, now thats somewhere i've not been in a while. I stopped going when the butchers closed last year. I've just checked and the bus goes straight to it. May have to try thier next. Thanks.

Also, I miss farmfoods and somerfields. In fact chesterfield is really struggling for shops. My secret gem is a stall on the market friday and saturday near the portland hotel which sells things that are 'close' to thier date. Crisps, choc bars etc, can fill OH's lunch box for the week for a pound!

Nice to see someone else from ches vegas, it's a wonderful place!

Back to the challenge. I am half way through a full inventory of what I have in the cupboard / Freezer, and I've made some interesting finds. I always knew I liked to have more food than needed in, but I think I have a problem:o ! Gonna sit down tonight and do meal plans for the next few weeks. This grocery challenge thing really makes you focus!

kittiej

Hi everyone.

I know I'm a bit late in wanting to join but I have only just found this thread.

I have been keeping my receipts since the 1st Jan, and yesterday did an inventory of the freezers and cupboards because I want to keep a tighter reign on our shopping bills.

Do you mind if I join?

I have set a budget of £40per week for 2 adults and 2 children (1 is still in nappies) and 2 guinea pigs!

Frugaldom

Hi all, everyone is doing really well and I'm enjoying reading all the threads each day about all the great bargains that are available. I spend so much time reading the forums now that I forget to go shop! :rotfl:

I'm working on a monthly basis from 1st to 31st with a target of £120. This would help me save more as my actual budget is £30 a week, so I might manage a few extra pounds savings over the year. More chicken stock made last night, which is now decanted into the milk cartons for going in the freezer. Think I now have 4 litres chicken stock in stock. I've enough pea and ham soup in the fridge (made yesterday) to last 2 days lunches and tonight will be sweet & sour chicken followed on from last night's roast chicken dinner. Trying to get daughter more into this, she's cooking a chicken just now and promises to make a second meal plus soup from leftovers. She normally buys tinned soup and buys chicken fillets! She's you, she'll learn

ellie2912

JoJoB wrote: »

Though not as much as when I had a cocaine habit lol.

made me chuckle:rotfl: sorry it was the directness! forks a fork and all that!

MoneyGypsy

Hi all,

well the budget has been pretty much a disaster so far as you can see from my signature. Oh well on I go regardless. Consoled by the fact that I am away for 3 days next week and 4 days the week after and food should be pretty much taken care of then. Also discovered yesterday that I owe a lot less than I thought to the taxman. :j :j :j

Lol.

Just realised my sig hasn't updates - it should say £140 spent from budget. oops!

Justamum

My month starts on 9th January so I'm going to try this. We've basically run out of money until DH's payday on 25th January (which is also the day we are moving house!) so I've been making lists from my freezer and cupboards to see what I can make from that lot to keep us going. I'm going to start with a budget of 300 (how the heck do you do pound signs?) and see how we go. Luckily my DH and children are back at work/school next week so there will be no more snacks out which take a huge chunk of our money.

Queenie

Justamum wrote: »

... (how the heck do you do pound signs?)

Hold the shift key (the one you use for capital letters) and the number 3 - that's if your keyboard is set to UK English

HariboJunkie

Well my spends are still sitting around the £25 mark since 31st December. I can't believe it. :j

I've stopped myself popping out for bits and pieces and am sending OH for milk etc. As long as he doesn't buy rubbish we're ok. :rolleyes:
He did get more bargains last night.... 4 packs of those cheese and bacon roll thingamies for 40p and 2 more packs of finest ham for 10p each.

The meal plan continues apace and going by that I still only need to buy milk and cat food this week. I just can't believe how much stuff I already had in and I really enjoyed devising menu plans around it. I always thought my storecupboard challenge combined with the grocery challenge would just mean beans on toast for a month.

kj*daisy

I'm joining again. Budget £260. £60 is the veg boxes and £50 a week on other food. Spent about £55 this week but am not going to supermarket next week, only farm shop, so should be less next week.